Vehicle seat

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10059231-B2
Application number	US-201515512195-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 5, 2015
Priority date	Sep 20, 2014
Publication date	Aug 28, 2018
Grant date	Aug 28, 2018

Abstract

A vehicle seat, includes a guide describing a trajectory, said vehicle seat being movable on the guide along the trajectory so that the vehicle seat is moved away from a vehicle center, and a front side of the vehicle seat is rotated about a vertical axis of the vehicle seat toward the vehicle center.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A vehicle seat, comprising:
the vehicle seat,
a guide describing a trajectory, said vehicle seat being movable on the guide along the trajectory so that the vehicle seat is moved away from a vehicle center and a front side of the vehicle seat is rotated about a vertical axis of the vehicle seat toward the vehicle center, wherein the guide comprises a pair of substantially parallel rails and a longitudinal adjustment configured to adjust the vehicle seat along a longitudinal axis of a motor vehicle, wherein the pair of substantially parallel rails curve in the form of an L-shape so as to extend substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the motor vehicle and substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the motor vehicle,
wherein the vehicle seat further comprising a holding device configured for causing a fixed state of the vehicle seat on the guide and the holding device is configured to fix the vehicle seat on the guide by a releasable clamping.

2. The vehicle seat of claim 1 , wherein the guide has a component which extends along the vertical axis of the vehicle seat.

3. The vehicle seat of claim 1 , wherein the holding device is configured to fix the vehicle seat on the guide stepless or at discrete positions along the guide.

4. The vehicle seat of claim 1 , wherein the holding device comprises a remote unlocking configured to release the fixed state of the vehicle seat.

5. The vehicle seat of claim 1 , further comprising a drive for moving the vehicle seat along the guide.

6. The vehicle seat of claim 1 , further comprising an actuator configured to tilt at least a portion of a seat surface of the vehicle seat about at least one axis.

7. The vehicle seat of claim 6 , wherein the portion of a seat surface comprises at least one surface element, said at least one surface element being adjustable by the actuator and configured to tilt the portion of the seat surface along the at least one axis.

8. The vehicle seat of claim 7 , wherein a tilting of the seat surface or the at least a portion of the seat surface is coupled to a movement of the vehicle seat so that a tilt angle of the seat surface or the portion of the seat surface increases relative to at least one of the axes with increasing distance of the vehicle seat to the vehicle center and decreases with decreasing distance of the vehicle seat to the vehicle center.

9. The vehicle seat of claim 6 , wherein the actuator is configured to adjust at least one of the portion of the seat surface and the surface element electrically, mechanically or pneumatically.

10. A motor vehicle comprising:
a vehicle seat comprising a guide, said guide describing a trajectory, said vehicle seat being movable on the guide along the trajectory so that the vehicle seat is moved away from a vehicle center and a front side of the vehicle seat is rotated about a vertical axis of the vehicle seat toward the vehicle center, wherein the guide comprises a pair of substantially parallel rails and a longitudinal adjustment configured to adjust the vehicle seat along a longitudinal axis of a motor vehicle, wherein the pair of substantially parallel rails curve in the form of an L-shape so as to extend substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the motor vehicle and substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the motor vehicle,
wherein the vehicle seat further comprising a holding device configured for causing a fixed state of the vehicle seat on the guide and the holding device is configured to fix the vehicle seat on the guide by a releasable clamping.

Assignees

• Audi Ag

Inventors

• Reuschel Jens Dietmar
• Diedrichs Vanessa

Classifications

• B60N2/0745

  the slide path being curved · CPC title

• B60N2/0742 Primary

  rotated about the vertical axis · CPC title

• B60N2/07

  Slide construction · CPC title

• B60N2/074

  rotated about the transversal axis · CPC title

• B60N2/06

  slidable (B60N2/12 {, B60N2/2209} take precedence) · CPC title